Neil Postman has a chapter about how medical technology ha changed what people expect from medical treatment in his book _Technopoly_. The short of it is that w

Neil Postman has a chapter about how medical technology ha changed what people expect from medical treatment in his book _Technopoly_. The short of it is that we’ve become reliant on technological solutions that we demand the maximum treatment available land we litigate when the doctor doesn’t order the maximum number of tests or prescribe the maximum treatment, rather than rely on the doctor carefully listening to the patient and meting out more protracted treatments. I think that it’s good that researchers try every possible avenue for research, but I think our obsession with increasingly technological “solutions” is driving an unhealthy environment of mistakes in treatments in the interest of delivering the maximum possible.